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- Title
COMPOSITIONAL GAPS AND DOWNWARD SPIRALS IN INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURE MANAGEMENT GROUPS.
- Authors
Hambrick, Donald C.; Jiatao Li; Katherine Xin; Tsui, Anne S.
- Abstract
We argue that compositional gaps in international joint venture (IJV) management groups, along parent company lines, will accentuate distinct managerial coalitions. Such gaps can occur on dimensions of observable demography, less apparent demography, or psychological characteristics. While compositional gaps in IJV management groups can provide the basis for healthy substantive conflict, such gaps-particularly if they are large-also tend to induce relationship conflict and heighten substantive conflict beyond its beneficial range. This can set off a downward spiral of relationship conflict, substantive conflict, and behavioral disintegration in the group. These harmful group processes further interact reciprocally with any tensions that might exist between the IJV parents, engendering a second downward spiral. Our model has implications for the performance of international joint ventures, and it serves as a foundation for designing interventions to avoid the downward spirals we portray.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; JOINT ventures; DEMOGRAPHIC research; STRATEGIC planning; MANAGEMENT; INTERORGANIZATIONAL relations; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology; GROUP decision making; ORGANIZATIONAL communication
- Publication
Strategic Management Journal (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) - 1980 to 2009, 2001, Vol 22, Issue 11, p1033
- ISSN
0143-2095
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/smj.195